• Question: If dinosaurs were not extinct how do you think they would have evolved?

    Asked by GeeDAwG-TSQD to John, Laura, Luke, Rob, Ruth on 15 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: John Fossey

      John Fossey answered on 15 Jun 2016:

      Pretty much birds are dinosaurs so can I say – in to birds

      On the other hand its worth clarifying – I suggest evolution happens every generation of an organism – there is some selection pressure.

      So I hate it when I hear phrases about life today that one thing is more evolved than another. So for example is a mouse more evolved than a human? – they have young at a younger age than humans – we share a common ancestor so a mouse alive today has gone through more evolutionary cycle opportunities than a human alive today. So judging evolution as a ranking or snapshot is not a fair comparison. Life often adapts to exploit opportunities presented – so perhaps a large brain to weight ratio could evolve outside of mammalian biology

    • Photo: Robert Williams

      Robert Williams answered on 15 Jun 2016:

      Slightly OT – probably that we would have been killed off by them by now.
      All animals evolve to gain a slight advantage over another being.
      Plants develop toxins to prevent from being eaten by ‘bugs’.
      So it is possible that dinosaurs would have developed ways to counteract our technology as the human race has ‘evolved’ to use technology

    • Photo: Laura Finney

      Laura Finney answered on 20 Jun 2016:

      I’m not sure. I think if they hadn’t died as part of the asteroid that hit, I think we would have killed them!

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